Royal Dutch/Shell Securities Litigation

Working on behalf of Royal Dutch and Shell, Compass Lexecon provided significant assistance to the defense of this case, which resulting, among other things, the first class-wide settlement between European investors and a European company over European securities claims. The work undertaken by the team from our Chicago office (including Daniel R. Fischel, Mike Keable, Vince Warther, Peter Clayburgh, Hans Peterson, and Liz Wall) included analyzing trading and relative price movements of shares traded on the U.S. and foreign exchanges. We worked with Ralph Ferrara, Ann Ashton, Jonathan Richman, Chris Clark, and others at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP and Jon Tuttle and Scott Auby at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.